Diocese of the Transfiguration of Novosibirsk

Diocese of the Transfiguration of Novosibirsk
Basic data
Country	Russian Federation
Metropolitan bishopric	Archdiocese of Moscow
Diocesan bishop	Joseph Werth SJ
founding	February 11, 2002
surface	2,000,000 km²
Parishes	68 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents	25,910,000 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics	518,000 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of	2%
Diocesan priest	19 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest	21 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest	12,950
Permanent deacons	1 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Friars	24 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters	63 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Russian
cathedral	Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord
address	ul.Gorkogo 100 630099 Novosibirsk Russia

Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord

The Diocese of the Transfiguration of Novosibirsk ( Latin Dioecesis Neosibiriana Transfigurationis , Russian Преображенская епархия в Новосибирске ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia , based in Novosibirsk .

The diocese was founded on April 13, 1991 by Pope John Paul II as the Apostolic Administration of Siberia. On May 18, 1999, the apostolic administrations of Eastern Siberia (Siberia Orientalis) and Western Siberia (Siberia Occidentalis) were separated. On February 11, 2002, the Apostolic Administration of Western Siberia with the Apostolic Constitution Meridionalem Russiae was established as the Diocese of the Transfiguration of Novosibirsk . It is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Moscow as a suffragan diocese. The name refers to the transfiguration of Christ .

Ordinaries

Apostolic Administrators

1. Joseph Werth SJ , from April 13, 1991
2. Jerzy Mazur SVD , from March 23, 1998 to May 18, 1999
3. Joseph Werth (SJ), second term, since May 18, 1999

Bishops

1. Joseph Werth (SJ), since February 11, 2002

Deaneries and parishes

The diocese is divided into six deaneries with around 70 parishes:

• Central Dean's Office
  • Novosibirsk Oblast : Novosibirsk (three parishes), Berdsk , Kuibyshev , Polovinnoe , Krasnosjorskoye
• Deanery Urals
  • Sverdlovsk Oblast : Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Tagil , Severouralsk , Krasnoturyinsk
  • Chelyabinsk Oblast : Chelyabinsk , Kopeisk ( Greek-Catholic parish)
• West Siberian Dean's Office
  • Tyumen Oblast : Tyumen , Omutinskoye , Ishim , Tobolsk
  • Autonomous Okrug of the Khanty and Mansi / Ugra : Surgut (two parishes, including a Greek-Catholic parish), Nizhnevartovsk
  • Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (no parishes)
  • Kurgan Oblast : Kurgan
• Deanery Omsk
  • Omsk Oblast : Omsk (three parishes, including a Greek Catholic parish), Sargatskoye (two parishes, including a Greek Catholic parish)
• Eastern Deanery
  • Tomsk Oblast : Tomsk
  • Kemerovo Oblast : Kemerovo , Jurga , Prokopjewsk (two parishes, including a Greek Catholic parish), Novokuznetsk (two parishes, including a Greek Catholic parish)
• Altai Deanery
  • Altai region : Barnaul , Novoaltaisk , Biysk , Talmenka , Slavgorod , Shumanovka
  • Altai Republic (no parishes)

See also

• Roman Catholic Church in Russia
• Conference of Catholic Bishops in Russia

Web links

• Description on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
• The Catholic Church in Western Siberia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Meridionalem Russiae , AAS 94 (2002), n.10, p. 600f.